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BD Touch SDK Promises Great Things

Posted by iphonefan

April 14, 2008 |

Does any of this sound good to you?

  • Pushing digital copies of movies to an iPhone from the Blu-ray disc menu
  • Automatically cataloguing a viewer’s Blu-ray disc collection and providing movie suggestions
  • Displaying trivia and extra information about a movie in sync with the movie’s playback
  • Turning existing Blu-ray discs into games that use the iPhone as the game controller
  • Viewing fan-created content in sync with the disk

If those features tickle your fancy, then you might be interested in NetBlender’s iPhone / BD Software Development Kit. BD Touch is a feature on many BD-Live enabled Blu-ray players including the Sony PS3. Applications developed using this SDK will allow the iPhone to be an extension of the the Blu-ray player. This is pretty exciting news.

According to the developer, here are the perks:

The key thing is that BD Touch is a two way communication technology, meaning BD Touch allows Blu-Ray discs to send and receive data from an iPhone/iPod Touch. The data can be images, text, audio, video and what we call Player commands like fast forward. This technology is going to be built into our professional Blu-Ray authoring tool so studios can take advantage of it, and we are releasing an SDK so developers can create all kinds of applications for consumer.

Pretty cool. June cannot come fast enough.


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  1. Kim on April 14, 2008 6:22 pm

    It all sounds good to me! Can’t wait!!

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